From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T07:58:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Some comments on new 1.9 features

On 11/4/05, Domenico De Felice <defelicedomenico@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> [CUT]
> > The funny thing about this example is that the whole point of having
> > ";;" be "end" is that you could write
> >
> >   class Foo
> >     def foo; "foo" ;;
> >   end
> >
> Why don't use just : for single statement methods?
>
>    class Foo
>       def foo: "foo"
>    end
>
> or in this case
>
>    class Foo:
>       def foo: "foo"
>
> It sounds more expressive than do .. ;;

...

It sounds too much like Python. Python's syntax is one of the reasons
I don't use Python.

-austin
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